Healthcare is a human right.
Nope. It’s ain’t. It’s more than a nice to have, it’s certainly part of a civilised society. But it’s not a right.
Longer term, we can rebuild rural America with family farms that are producing healthy, nutritious food.
Eh? Deliberately using less efficient food productio9n methods will make America healthier?
Millions of workers should not have to worry about how they’ll pay the rent or buy food for their kids. Working-class Americans live far shorter lives than the rich because of the stress of trying to survive on a paycheck-to-paycheck existence. Stress kills. Stress makes us sick. We must raise the minimum wage to at least $17 an hour.
This is about health now, is it?
Lower the work week to 32 hours with no loss of pay
Having just defined pay by the hour that’s gonna be tough….
take a very hard look at the impact smartphones and social media are having on our mental and physical health.
Ban TikTok!
We need to end the unprecedented level of corporate greed we are experiencing.
Ah, so, yes, it’s not about health, is it?
And if the Clintons hadn’t rigged the votes in the 2016 Dem primaries Boinie would have been their presidential candidate. I wonder if he might have won the presidential election? Stranger things have happened.
take a very hard look at the impact pamplets are having on our mental and physical health.
take a very hard look at the impact newpapers are having on our mental and physical health.
take a very hard look at the impact novels are having on our mental and physical health.
take a very hard look at the impact radio is having on our mental and physical health.
take a very hard look at the impact paperbacks are having on our mental and physical health.
Humans are the “communicating” ape. They just want to ban humans being humans.
Rights are a legal fiction, to be disposed of at the whim of the government.
Dump someone into the ocean or the forest at night during a storm and see how much nature respects their “right to life”, never mind their right to “health care” or “food” or “happiness”.
And see how readily our governments dispose of our rights and freedoms as soon as they are inconvenient.
Oh no, there’s a bad case of the sniffles going around, let’s put everyone under house arrest and stop them working then force them to have experimental jabs while hilariously telling them they are safe.
If what some desires, wants or even needs requires the Labour of another person it is not a right.
Same with the housing “crisis” in a lot of the world: to whose heads are we putting guns and forcing them to build the houses?
To fix healthcare you just need to put the gov’t in charge of:
Farms
Pay rates for most employees
Hours worked for almost everyone
Use of smartphones by everyone
Use of social media by everyone
Profit levels by every corporation
That’s all it’ll take
Say what you will about Boinie, he’s always hustling the suckers. Chutzpah!
I’m waiting patiently for evidence that small farms produce food that is any more healthy and nutritious than the big guys. Tastier yeah quite possibly if you can afford it.
1. “bring back the family farms” really means bring back sharecroppers and neo-feudalism.
2. The poor don’t have shorter lives because of stress – they’re actually *not* worried about living paycheck to paycheck because they get welfare and they income is guaranteed and pegged to COL and median income. Its not much pay, but its more secure than anyone in an actual job.
3. The poor have shorter lives because of less access to medical monitoring – Trump has a private doctor that does house-calls and probably a room of medical equipment on standby even before he was President – and poor nutrition and exercise choices. Some of the dudes I’ve been working with down a sixpack of beer before lunch break. Others are vaping THC or tweaking to get through a shift.
>Chernyy Drakon
January 1, 2025 at 10:56 am
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Oh no, there’s a bad case of the sniffles going around, let’s put everyone under house arrest and stop them working then force them to have experimental jabs while hilariously telling them they are safe.
You let them do it. Next time try shooting them. Worked for us.
“Eh? Deliberately using less efficient food productio9n methods will make America healthier”
Who knows?
Efficient at what? And who does the measuring of efficiency? With what metrics, and their scope? And what are the incentives in that efficient production?
Colour (or Color) me a tiny bit skeptical about the healthiness of the status quo 😉
To follow up the above, I am reminded of Dilbert’s (actually IIRC Dogbert’s) “Dog Poo Yogurt”
More efficient than ordinary yogurt – due to lower input cost of dog poo vs. traditional family farm ingredients – but is it “better”?
Pretty well established that farming is much more efficient on a large scale than a small one. Regardless of what you grow and whether it’s organic, etc. it is far more efficient (less costly) to do it on a large scale.
A small family farm can use pesticides and artificial fertilizers, and a massive corporate farm can be organic, that’s an entirely different issue than the economies of scale.
Not sure why, but the “family farm” has a very powerful romantic appeal.